Example sentences containing 'wet blanket'

Once, and once only, I thought I saw something -- a darker shadow, high up like a mountain thrusting the wet blanket of the fog skyward.Innes, Hammond HIGH STANDHe's a bitpompous for going out with --- he can be a right wet blanket.Jane Asher LOSING ITspluttered Sam when he finallygot free of the wet blanket.Garth Nix LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYRAlfredo Mancuso and Gino Laveri are on my back, and the police are all over me like a wet blanket.Scott, Jack A KNIFE BETWEEN THE RIBS